Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Amy

"Amy is a film that makes you feel culpable, but it also stirs up waves
of sympathy, of a desire to protect her and, also, an anger at those in
her life who – you feel – could have done so much more to save her. This
extends to pretty much everyone with whom she had a professional
relationship (oh yes, and Blake Fielder-Civil). “It brought out the
worst of a lot of people in her life,” says Kapadia. “If one looks
carefully, there are lots of people who make lots of decisions or who
were aware of one thing – whether it was the drinking, the bulimia, or
the drugs – and nobody stopped it. That’s what the film is really about.
It’s pretty heavy. You can’t quite imagine what it’s like when they’re
in the film. To go through it all again, it’s really tough. There’s
certain people who just can’t watch the second half."